Things are moving on apace. Having finished the main guns I moved on to the secondary and tertiary gun positions. The Atlanta is an unusual ship with an odd layout in many ways, the secondary guns are in a battery firing through gun-ports much in the manner of wooden ships of the line. The tertiary guns are in peculiar little towers positions at the corners of the superstructure. These battery positions were closed with shutters that folded outward to allow the guns to rotate and bear on targets.
we saw the cylinders that are the gatling towers in my last post,
they had to be cut to fit the curved superstructure,
this was (as usual) an all-guesswork operation